Principal Salesforce Administrator

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. Serve as a primary platform owner for Salesforce, accountable for production stability, reliability, and performance .

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeLouisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $107,901 - $172,642 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a primary platform owner for Salesforce, accountable for production stability, reliability, and performance
Lead advanced Salesforce administration activities including configuration, security model design, automation, data management, and environment strategy
Proactively identify and remediate risks related to technical debt, scalability, performance, and security
Partner with support, monitoring, and incident teams to meet SLAs and drive root - cause resolution for production issues
Actively participate in and support Salesforce Design Authority / governance forums, ensuring solutions align to enterprise architecture and platform standards
Review and influence solution designs, enforcing best practices around configuration vs. customization, data integrity, and long - term maintainability
Define and evolve administrative standards, guardrails, and operating procedures across the Salesforce ecosystem
Play a key role in release management, environment readiness, and deployment coordination in partnership with Release Managers and DevOps teams
Ensure admin - owned changes are well - designed, tested, documented, and production - ready
Support and mature DevOps, CI/CD, and backup/recovery processes as they relate to admin - managed components
Serve as a technical leader and mentor for Salesforce Administrators and developers, raising overall platform maturity
Lead knowledge - sharing sessions, working groups, and admin community forums
Provide hands - on coaching to build admin capability across delivery teams and reduce single - points - of - failure
Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Developers, Data teams, and Business stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable platform solutions
Support platform initiatives such as license optimization, app rationalization, new Salesforce feature adoption, and roadmap planning
Evaluate new Salesforce capabilities and AppExchange solutions, providing recommendations grounded in enterprise impact and ROI

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive hands on experience as a Salesforce Administrator in large, complex, multi team environments
Deep expertise in Salesforce security, roles, profiles, permission sets, flows, data management, and environment strategy
Proven ability to lead through influence without direct authority
Strong understanding of Salesforce governance, release management, and platform best practices
Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with high availability and business criticality
Bachelor's degree or advanced degree
7 + years of experience in related field
In lieu of degree, 9 + years of experience in related field
Salesforce Administrator and/or Advanced Administrator certifications (additional Salesforce certifications strongly preferred)
Experience operating within a Salesforce Center of Excellence or enterprise governance model
Familiarity with DevOps tools (e.g., Copado or similar), release automation, and backup/recovery strategies
Experience partnering with vendors and evaluating third - party Salesforce solutions
Background in mentoring or leading communities of practice

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs
Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance
Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education
401k match including an annual company contribution
Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work

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Hard Skills & Tools

Salesforce administrationSalesforce securitydata managementrelease managementenvironment strategyconfigurationautomationtechnical debt remediationDevOpsCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluence without authoritycollaborationmentoringknowledge sharingproblem-solvingcommunicationcoachingorganizational skillsstakeholder engagement

Certifications

Salesforce AdministratorAdvanced AdministratorSalesforce certifications